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Across the country chaos has gripped this vast oil rich North African nation that has natural riches to rival the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
All of these things gripped in their hands.
Source: https://gizmodo.com/julianna-baggott-new-story-collection-eerie-ghost-story-1850271353
An hour later, gripped by a deadly food coma, you’d regret it.
Source: https://www.sbnation.com/nfl/2023/12/12/23998369/tommy-devito-giants-vibes-cutlets-nfl
Anne was entirely gripped by her daughter's performance and was seen holding a crook, which is used for herding sheep.
An ongoing cholera outbreak, declared at the end of October 2022, has gripped the refugee camps as well as communities in Garissa and Wajir counties.
As we round the bend into the fall and look toward the winter, our state finds itself still gripped by a homelessness crisis deeper and more widespread than ever before.
Businesses a stone's throw from Town's Kenilworth Road ground are gripped by play-off fever.
Source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-65712629?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA
But it is well to remember that in 1945 no one would have believed that just a few years later the nation would be paralyzed by the fear that gripped it in the late 1940s and early ’50s.
But since Oct. 7, the acrimonious polarization that had gripped Israel over Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s proposal to weaken the country’s courts has largely been replaced with an outburst of national unity.
Dark, gritty and real, is a Canadian-produced film that will keep audiences gripped from start to finish.
Source: https://globalnews.ca/news/9926543/toronto-film-festival-2023-tiff-top-movies/
Egypt has been gripped by economic crisis for years, a situation exacerbated by the war in Ukraine which has severely affected food prices in the country.
Source: https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/egypt-debt-risk-country-second-most-at-risk
Expert eyes are starting to turn to Christmas 2023, as has kept the lights on through this festive period despite an energy crisis that has gripped the continent for more than a year.
Source: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/europe-britons-germany-experts-government-b2254444.html
Extreme temperatures have also gripped other parts of the globe including the US and China.
Source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-66237960?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA
Fashioned after an American diner, this joint has been dishing up old school burgers with none of that smashed burger nonsense that has firmly gripped the capital.
Former South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh was found guilty Thursday of killing his wife and adult son in a 2021 double-murder, a more than five-week trial that gripped the nation’s attention.
Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/laurasmythe/2023/03/03/forbes-daily-russias-cash-dilemma/
From the 2019 presidential election until after the coup, Saied’s sweet talk gripped the public’s imagination and kept citizens dreaming of a better future.
Source: https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/02/24/young-tunisians-dont-trust-kais-saied-anymore/
He later admitted in court that he knew the gun was fully loaded as soon as he gripped it.
He may lie as much as he likes on what informed the madness that gripped him that day, but the truth, as it always does, will eventually reveal itself.
If you saw people or cars lined up to receive free groceries, I bet you’d think the images were from the early days of the pandemic, when uncertainty and fear gripped us all.
Source: https://www.minnpost.com/community-voices/2023/09/why-there-are-still-food-lines/
Immense, twisty true-life storytelling that keeps everyone gripped without descending into grimness.